1879. ] Adjectives of Color in Indian Languages. 479 
Lilac is expressed by kishka mitip, “similar to the mitip 
berry.” This is a berry of lilac color, which grows ina corolla 
or sort of grape. Brown, rusty-brown, deep-brown is shukui- 
shukui; red, reddish-brown, ilpilp, and this term also serves to 
express the color of the red cherry, the strawberry and the centi- 
foil rose. Dark-brown is payu ilpilp, and d/ack, timaytimuy, when 
said of black cherries, the black bear, the complexion of the 
negro, but hiskétse, when used of the darkness of night. 
The Indians of this race do not distinguish more than three 
colors in the rainbow, mazsmays, or yellow, ilpilp, or red, and 
yushyush, or d/ue. 
` The Kalapúya race of Indians are the primordial inhabitants of 
the Willamet valley of North-western Oregon, and within the 
historical epoch were the masters of about three-quarters of this 
vast and fertile domain, the remainder being held by the intruding 
Molales. They are subdivided into the Atfalati, Yamhill, Luka- 
mayuk and the Kalaptya proper on the western, the Ahantchuyuk 
and Sdntiam on the eastern side of Willamet river, while the 
Yonkalla or Ayanké’/Id lived on some creeks forming tributaries 
to Umpqua river. With the exception of the Yonkalla their 
dialects differ but little, and what is given below is taken from the 
Atfalati (Tualati, Wapatu lake) dialect. For more than twenty 
years hence the Kalapuya tribes have lived in common on Grande 
Ronde reservation, Yamhill and Polk counties, Oregon. 
In this language adjectives are always connected with some 
pronominal or predicative prefix, which I have retrenched in- 
these quotations. 
White is mó-u; gray, plotim ; due, pé-i ankaf pawé-u; purple, 
tulélu ; green, tänkaiyä 
Yellow, pé-i antk pawé-u; sorrel, liblo, a term borrowed from 
Chinook j jargon; roan-colored, sandéli; drown, pù'dshnank bases 
“not quite purple ;” ved, tchal, ichéllim. 
Of metallic or golden shine or color, wéltchiamn : multicolored, of 
diversified colors, ya’/mtchei; d/ack, méyim. 
he real meaning of these names could not be disclosed, since 
the intricate phonetics of this linguistic family render etymologi- 
cal inquiries singularly difficult: We cannot draw any other 
inference from this list, as it stands now, but that the colors seem 
as well specified as in English, and that only blue and m 
show close resemblance or identity in their me 
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